Worsley - Philippians - 3

3:1  Finally, my brethren, rejoice in the Lord. To write the same things to you is not irksome to me, and for you it is safe.

3:2  Beware of those that are like dogs, beware of evil doers, beware of the concision.

3:3  For we are of the true circumcision, who worship God in spirit, rejoicing in Christ Jesus, and having no confidence in the flesh.

3:4  Though I might also have confidence in the flesh. If any other thinks he hath whereof to trust in the flesh, I more:

3:5  having been circumcised on the eighth day, of the race of Israel, of the tribe of Benjamin, an Hebrew of Hebrews, with respect to the law a pharisee,

3:6  as to zeal persecuting the church, as to the righteousness of the law blameless: but those things,

3:7  which were once gain to me, I counted loss for Christ.

3:8  Yea doubtless and I count all but loss for the excellency of the knowledge of Christ Jesus my Lord, for whom I have suffered the loss of all, and I account them but dung, that I may gain Christ, and be found in Him,

3:9  not having my own righteousness which is of the law, but that which is by the faith of Christ, the righteousness which is of God by faith: that I may know Him,

3:10  and the power of his resurrection, and the fellowship of his sufferings, being made conformable to his death;

3:11  if by any means I may attain to the resurrection of the dead:

3:12  not that I have yet won the prize, or am already perfect: but I press forward to acquire that perfection, for which also I have been apprehended by Christ Jesus.

3:13  Brethren, I count not myself to have attained it: but one thing I do, forgetting the things which are behind, and stretching forward to those before,

3:14  I press toward the mark for the prize of the high calling of God in Christ Jesus.

3:15  Let us therefore, as many as are perfect, attend to this: and if in any thing ye think differently, God will reveal this also unto you.

3:16  But in what we have attained, let us walk by the same rule, let us mind the same thing.

3:17  Brethren, be imitators of me, and observe those that walk as ye have us for an example.

3:18  (For many walk, of whom I have told you often, and now tell you even weeping, that they are the enemies of the cross of Christ: whose end is destruction,

3:19  whose God is their belly, and whose glory is in their shame; who mind earthly things) For our conversation is in heaven,

3:20  from whence also we expect the Saviour, our Lord Jesus Christ: who will change our vile body,

3:21  that it may be made like his glorious body, according to the energy of his ability to subdue all things to Himself.